Acting
Schrott's Pharaon: villainy you can almost forgive, he's that magnetic.
Production
Ronconi's staging turns Exodus into political spectacle—Egypt as police state.
Sound
La Scala's acoustics captured live. The plague of hail? Actually terrifying.
Director
Carlo Battistoni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rossini wrote this for Paris in 1827, expanding his earlier 'Mosè in Egitto' with French grand opera spectacle—including the famous Passage of the Red Sea tableau.
This La Scala production (2003) arrived during an Abdrazakov ascension: the Russian bass would dominate this repertoire for two decades, making this document of a voice now slightly legendary.
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